with SSD prices dropping so fast, is there any chance to grab a cheap SSD SATA and use it in an older powerbook, with some sort of adapter? I didn't think so, there is no space for a SATA/PATA adapter, right?

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Well, they make those adapters that allow you to put SATA drives in the PATA optical drive bays.

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Probably. But it's like putting a Vette engine in a Vega. Get an early MacBook Pro.

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On a related note, I need an adapter to use SATA optical drives in a PATA/IDE bay/enclosures. And decent compact ones?

There won't be room. There are PATA SSDs though, although not nearly as cheap as the newer ones.

Waste of money IMO. One alternative is to get a fast CF card and a small CF to PATA adapter, and run the whole system off that.

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Waste of money IMO. One alternative is to get a fast CF card and a small CF to PATA adapter, and run the whole system off that.

That's your best option. Keep in mind a really fast CF card will saturate a powerbooks 133mb bus, so you don't even have to get a top of the line card.



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Waste of money IMO. One alternative is to get a fast CF card and a small CF to PATA adapter, and run the whole system off that.

That's your best option. Keep in mind a really fast CF card will saturate a powerbooks 133mb bus, so you don't even have to get a top of the line card.

which CF card? what speed?

BTW: it's not about $$$, that was not the question

if money isn't a problem, get an OWC PATA SSD

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Waste of money IMO. One alternative is to get a fast CF card and a small CF to PATA adapter, and run the whole system off that.

That's your best option. Keep in mind a really fast CF card will saturate a powerbooks 133mb bus, so you don't even have to get a top of the line card.

which CF card? what speed?

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Something like this would be ideal. I'm not sure what size you'd need? Just look for a fast maximum transfer speed and it must support ATA mode (most cards will). At least you won't have to wait for the drive to spin up!



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Remember that using a CF card will be an exercise in frustration when writing a lot of small files to the thing. This is where the SSD controller optimizations make the biggest difference and this is of course absent from a dumb PATA-CF adapter. A 5400 RPM HD is much faster than this setup at writing those small files.

Yes, I've set this very thing up on a Pismo and was unimpressed for the most part. Maybe it will be better on a fast G4 with a 133x card.

I bought a 1.8" 64GB SATA SSD when it was $40 (now $60), but haven't gotten around to buying the adapter and installing it in my Pismo, just for fun.
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A 1.8" drive should be small enough to work with an adapter. In fact, I even found a guy that sells a cage that you put the adapter and the 1.8" SSD in to make it all the same dimensions as a 2.5" drive.
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Gareth, that's really cool. I bet your Pismo would be usable with that!

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I bought a 1.8" 64GB SATA SSD when it was $40 (now $60), but haven't gotten around to buying the adapter and installing it in my Pismo, just for fun.
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A 1.8" drive should be small enough to work with an adapter. In fact, I even found a guy that sells a cage that you put the adapter and the 1.8" SSD in to make it all the same dimensions as a 2.5" drive.
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